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Originally Posted by Barcey
Apple's iTunes contains the purchaser's email address in the "DRM Free" downloads. I would consider it social DRM. I personally have no problem with it.
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hm. i'm not sure i see the point of it. it will deter honest people from sharing their music, but since they are honest they don't need a deterrent. it will clearly *not* deter people who want to share their music via p2p because there will always be some easy way around it ; either they will find a way to remove this information (it can't be too hard) or they will give a false email address or something...
and it is certainly costing money to personally encode each individual file served according to who purchases it, which i am quite sure is being charged to the customer.
so it might not be as evil as restrictive drm, but it seems pointless and wasteful to me nonetheless and i can't say i support that.
is amazon also using this system for their "drm-free" mp3 files ? and, is apple telling their customers clearly that this is what they are doing ? or are they just advertising "drm-free files" and slipping this social drm on silently ?